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From a woodland weekend in Wales to Burning Man's temporary desert city and a coastal techno festival in Morocco, music festivals still ahead in 2026
Festival season 2025 delivered plenty of memories, and 2026 brought its own wave of announcements, headliners, and brand-new events. Notably, one of the world’s biggest and best music festivals sat out the year entirely, since Glastonbury took a fallow year after an electric 2025 to give the land some rest.
Most of the year’s major festivals have already come and gone by mid-August, but a handful of genuinely significant events remain on the calendar, spanning everything from a woodland weekender in Wales to a desert art gathering in Nevada.
The six festivals below appear on Time Out and cover the best music festivals still ahead in 2026. They span three continents, from a woodland weekender in Wales to a desert art gathering in Nevada and a coastal techno festival in Morocco, giving travelers a genuine range of options for the remainder of the year. Timing varies considerably across the list, since some events, such as Green Man and Forwards Festival, wrap up within the next couple of weeks, while others, including MOGA and the later legs of Exit Festival’s global tour, stretch well into autumn. A few entries reflect genuine shifts within the festival world too, since Exit Festival’s move away from its longtime Serbian home marks one of the more significant changes to hit a major European festival in years, driven by funding cuts that have forced organizers to rethink the entire model. Musical range also runs wide throughout this list, from Green Man’s folk-leaning lineup to Mutek’s experimental electronic programming and Burning Man’s genuinely unconventional approach to music as just one part of a much larger art experience built around an entire temporary desert community that forms and completely dissolves again within a single week each year.
